Vitalis Im

Vitalis Im is a doctoral candidate in the School of Social Work and Department of Anthropology. Funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, his dissertation research examines the politics of artmaking practices—including music, visual arts, theater, and creative writing—in prisons. His scholarship focuses on the tensions inherent to artmaking as technologies of care in prisons, as tools of “resistance,” “healing,” and “community building” on the one hand as well as a means by which exploitation, violence, and trauma are legitimated and propagated.